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02.03.2010
BANGKOK CONFERENCE: HH Khan of Kalat address to participants
Urdu version is on BBCMy fellow Baluch brothers and sisters, I regret I could not be here today with you in person. I would like to congratulate Munir and his team for organising this event.My Dear Baluch, we are at the crossroads of history where we can either become an independent country or be amongst nations which have perished and are long forgotten. My message to you is the message of UNITY. Let us unite as Baluch on the common policy of freedom for the Baluch. Let us send a message to the world that we are one Nation. Let us draw a road map to freedom; I invite all organisations, intellectuals and Sardars to join for the common cause of the Baluch nation and get over the squ... details >>
01.03.2010
BALOCHISTAN CONFERENCE: Some comparison
February 28, 2010
Jumma Marri
Baloch Conference at Bangkok was held with success in spite of fact that some calls of boycott by our some Baloch brothers who unwillingly or willing came together with Pakistani policies of divide and rule in other words they stood with Baloch enemies by opposing a conference which was held to highlight the sufferings being inflected to Baloch masses and enhance Baloch rights for self determination.
Those brothers who opposed this conference must felt ashamed by the end result of this conference where none other than Baloch rights were discussed and highlighted contrary to the opposing sides nobody was abused and back bitted there was no place for back b... details >>
28.02.2010
BANGKOK CONFERENCE: Governance in Balochistan
by Wendy Johnson
Feb 22, 2010
Below is the text of paper presented by Ms.wendy Johnson at Bangkok conference, title "Governance in Balochistan"
Three images I have seen cross my website over the past few years abide in my memory. One is a photo of students in Quetta—dressed in white dress shirts and black slacks, lying on the street, protesting the lack of places for them at a university. Another is a video of a woman with ropes over her shoulders, dragging something. As the camera follows her, in what appears to be a desert, it soon becomes apparent—and this video is very cinematic—that she is laboriously drawing water from a well. This is 2009, mind you. A third image is a pho... details >>
26.02.2010
BALOCHISTAN: Bangkok Conference, Declaration
BANGKOK DECLARATION
24 February 2010
We the participants of the International Conference titled “Balochistan Yesterday Today and Tomorrow: Meeting the Challenges”, organized by “Baloch Voice Foundation in Bangkok” on 22-24 February 2010 unanimously;
1. Commit ourselves to the struggle for our just and inalienable rights both as individuals and members of the Baloch community and resolve to put aside all our differences and work together in harmony and in close cooperation towards this end;
2. Pledge to take all measures possible through peaceful means to protect our language, culture and separate identity as Baloch and build a society based on values that affirm human dig... details >>
29.01.2010
Pakistan the oppressor
It is little surprise that Baloch nationalist leaders have rejected the latest peace package proposed by Islamabad
Peter Tatchell
Thursday 28 January 2010
A series of massacres of peaceful protesters by Pakistani security forces look set to sink hopes of a settlement deal between the government in Islamabad and Baloch nationalists who are campaigning for self-rule. There are fears that the sinister, shadowy Pakistani military and intelligence agencies are behind these killings, in a deliberate attempt to sabotage the reconciliation package put forward by the government of President Asif Ali Zardari and Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani.
On 15 January, at least two Baloch political activi... details >>
20.01.2010
Balochistan is no Bangladesh
Sushant Sareen
January 19, 2010
The separatist sentiment sweeping through the province of Balochistan has led many in Pakistan to draw parallels with the situation that prevailed in East Pakistan and which ultimately culminated in the formation of an independent state, Bangladesh. But such parallels, while they sensationalize the issue of Balochistan and help to draw attention to it, tend to gloss over some very critical differences between the situation that existed in the erstwhile East Pakistan and what obtains in today’s Balochistan. More than the similarities, which are many, between East Pakistan of yore and Balochistan of today, it is the differences that stand in the... details >>
13.01.2010
BALOCHISTAN & KASHMIR — DIFFERENT NOTES
Malladi Rama Rao
The Khan of Kalat, the traditional ruler of the predominant Baloch state of Kalat, chose independence, and claimed that Nepal and Kalat had the same status. In 1947, he was the most powerful ruler of what is today’s Balochistan and acknowledged lord of all Baloch tribes. However, after the British departed, Pakistan army moved in and the Baloch territories were merged with Pakistan. Who ratified the merger? Well that honour went to the Quetta municipality, a body dominated by non-Baloch settlers. Since then, violence has erupted in Balochistan five times – 1948, 1958, 1963-64, 1973-77 and again now with the Khans of Kalat again in the forefront. Interestingly, Baloch ... details >>
11.01.2010
Why Always Balochs of Lyari ?
BY A.A. Baloch
As a part of so-called ‘Operation Cleanup’ last night around 2-3.00 a.m. Rangers tried to enter into some parts of Lyari i.e. Gul Muhammad Lane & adjoining areas but didn’t succeed, thanks to the brave people of Lyari (especially women & children), who in spite of severe cold, gathered at Moulvi Osman Park. In spite of cod dead night, thousands of people rushed outside their homes, after announcements were made on loudspeakers.
This incident must be sufficient to open the eyes of people of Lyari that PPP is nothing but proved to be a back stabber. PPP always used Balochs as a goat to slaughter them.. Thanks to the alleged PPP, MQM alliance, several inn... details >>
09.01.2010
Centre seeks explanation from Balochistan
Baloch unity welcomes Balochistan cabinet drastic decision
Baloch unity and Baloch around the world support the decision taken by Balochistan Govt these companies paid huge kick backs to Islamabad corrupt Punjabis exploiters who hardly care for Baloch people and their interests they want kick backs and will sell every stone on Baloch lands, Balochistan govt must stand by Baloch people and their interests first and should never bow in front of any pressure be it from the biggest exploiters in world the imperialist US or their junior subordinates the Australian or Punjabis.
We believe there must be complete halt in exploitation of Baloch hidden mineral resources till Balochistan ge... details >>
08.01.2010
The mess over the missing in Balochistan
January 8, 2010
Nirupama Subramanian
The issue of enforced disappearances is now seen as one of the biggest hurdles to Islamabad's efforts to make peace with the Baloch people.
Since December 30 last, a group of two dozen boys and girls, accompanied by a few adult women, has been squatting outside the Quetta Press Club, braving the biting cold that sweeps through Pakistan’s Balochistan province at this time of the year. The group is on a daily hunger-strike, protesting the disappearance of a father or a brother, allegedly after he was taken away by state intelligence agencies.
Holding photographs of their missing family members, these children say they will sit there indefinitely —... details >>
22.12.2009
Strategic Balochistan becomes a target in war against Taliban
Monday 21 December 2009
Look around Balochistan, and you may not see much. Pakistan's largest province is also its poorest and least inhabited – an expanse of rocky deserts and ramshackle villages where hardy tribesmen live by ancient laws. But to outside eyes, Balochistan's barren sands glisten with hidden value.
Mining companies eye its natural riches: vast and largely untapped reserves of copper, natural gas and possibly oil. Criminals see easy money: the world's heroin superhighway, a network of smuggling trails, cuts through its lonely borders. Foreign governments consider its location: wedged between Iran and Afghanistan, and covering two-fifths of Pakistan, Balochistan occupies hig... details >>
11.12.2009
The Balochistan Package: Band-Aid on a Bullet Wound
The Friday Times, Lahore4 Dec '09By Alia Amirali &nb... details >>
04.12.2009
An overview of Baloch Resistance in Western Balochistan.
Following is the content read by Ismail Ameeri in the Washington DC Conference which was held on 21st November 09 by American Friends of Balochistan.Balochistan is the ancestral land of Baloch people. In the late 19th century Balochistan was divided by the British Empire. That is why we are encountered with the phenomena of Western Balochistan, Eastern Balochistan and Northern Balochistan.Western Balochistan is under Iranian occupation which lies from strait of Hormoz from west to south of Kirman and present province of Balochistan. Western Balochistan is located in a very strategic location with almost 700 Kilometres coastline. According to official surveys it has abundant energy resources ... details >>
03.12.2009
Government accused of “cheating” missing persons’ families
By Malik Siraj Akbar
QUETTA, Dec 2: Majority of the families of the ‘missing persons’ in different parts of Balochistan are discontented with the slow pace of government response to release their family members after the announcement of Balochistan package by Prime Minister Syed Yousaf Raza Gillani which led to the release of at least twenty disappeared people.
As promised by the prime minister, around twenty missing persons, including fifteen from the conflict-stricken district of Dera Bugti, have already resurfaced from different parts of Balochistan. They reached their homes to celebrate Eid but the release of only twenty people out of an estimated number of around four thousan... details >>
09.11.2009
IFJ: Situation Report for Pakistan,
Monday, 9 November 2009, 12:55 pmPress Release: International Federation of Journalists
November 9, 2009
Media personnel in Balochistan contend with alarmingly regular violence and threats as a consequence of their work, leading to widespread self-censorship. The difficulties are compounded by a historic failure to provide adequate professional training for local media personnel, the unwillingness of media proprietors to pay reasonable wages and support the safety of their workers, and a related attitude among some that media work is not a profession but merely a means to secure financial or political benefits by other means.
The following report was commissioned by the Interna... details >>
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